Fox Parent News Corp. Funds GOP Attack Machine $1 Million
When I saw this article on Crooks and Liars, I thought, well here we go again, but this time the Corporate Greed Machine and the GOP has SCOTUS to thank for the endless flow of money being thrown around to reassure that the "R's" will regain power over all of our lives. Even though The American People have rejected this US Supreme Court ruling on Corporate Personhood, they/we, for the most part, are helpless.
But this is not the time to give-up. Sure we can't match the flow of money and sure the "R's" will be able to use the dirtiest, meanest and limitless intolerable slander attacks against their "D" opponents but We The People have our tools, they can't shut us up completely! We can speak out, write letters to our congress, go on-line and add our names to petitions, write blogs, tweet, and facebook our objections. We can also turn off the TV when one of their attack ads makes its way into our homes, and throw the
propagandized fliers in the trash also hang-up on robo-calls. Then when it’s time to VOTE, we can vote against all those who use negative campaigning and mendacity to cloud our minds.
It's not going to be easy but we the American people have the power to fight CORPORATE PERSONHOOD and not allow them an easy win! YES WE DO! thinkingblue aka thethinkingblue
PS: Please read the article below and GET MAD!Fox Parent News Corp. Funds GOP Attack Machine to the
Tune of $1 Million - So Far
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:00 PM PDT
It isn't like this is a complete surprise, but still, there is
something incestuous about News Corp. donating $1 million
to the Republican Governors' Association in order for the
Republican Governors' Association to mount high-profile attack
campaigns on Democratic candidates. I think it's safe for
everyone to eliminate the terms "fair" and
"balanced" from any discussion of Fox News.
More disturbing to me than even the editorial compromise that
comes from such a contribution is the fact that the largest
shareholder (besides Murdoch) in News Corp is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,
who is launching an Arabic News Network in partnership with News
Corp. That raises all sorts of ethical and political issues for
me. Does the corporate veil shield News Corp from the ban on
contributions from foreign countries? It likely does, but it
certainly should disqualify Fox News from being considered a "news outlet."
News Corp. isn't the only member of the RGA Million Dollar
Roundtable, either, though they hold the record for the most
compromised by it. David Koch has also donated
$1 million to the cause, and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce has
given $2,547,500 in 2010.
There are many other corporate members of the Six-Figure club.
Keep in mind these are cumulative totals through June 30, 2010.
Expect them to at least double by November:
- AT&T: $280,000
- Chevron: $150,000
- Coca-Cola Bottling Company: $100,000
- Coca-Cola Company: $135,000
- Consolidated Energy: $100,000
- Contran Corp: $100,000 (also $25,000 from Harold Simmons,
CEO Total: $125,000) - Devon Energy: $250,000
- Eli Lilly: $210,000
- Emerson: $100,000
- FirstEnergy Corp: $250,000
- Philip Geier: $100,000
- General Electric Co: $105,000
- Hewlett-Packard: $100,900
- Hunt Consolidated: $100,000
- IQ Innovations: $200,000
- Jacobs Entertainment: $125,000
- Liberty Mutual Group: $100,000
- Metropolitan Milwaukee Assoc. of Commerce: $115,000
- Larry Mizel/MDC Holdings: $100,000
- MTR Gaming: $125,000
- Mugar Enterprises/David Mugar: $100,000
- Murray Energy Corporation: $100,000
- Natixis Global Asset Management, LP: $100,000
- New Balance: $100,000
- Nextera Energy Resources, Inc.: $100,000
- Oracle: $100,000
- Peabody Investments Corp: $120,000
- Bruce Rauner/GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC: $100,000
- Ryan Innovative Solutions: $100,000
- SAS Institute: $130,000
- SEIU: $100,000
- Paul Singer/Elliott Management: $500,000
- Jack Taylor/Enterprise Holdings: $190,000 (Also $50,000
from Andrew Taylor, CEO and Phyllis Taylor $25,000 Total
$265,000) - Travelers Indemnity Company: $200,000
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc: $140,000
- Richard DeVos/Alticor: $150,000
Keep in mind, this is only the list from the June, 2010
quarterly report. I'm certain there are many more on the March
2010 report who poured their money in at the first of the year.
For the publicly held corporations like News Corp, those
donations come right off the bottom line. Funny how employees are
overhead to cut, lay off, underpay and overwork in order to boost
that bottom line, but million-dollar contributions to Haley
Barbour's attack machine are just part of the cost of doing business.
Not funny. But true. FROM CROOKS AND LIARS
---UPDATE: FROM HUFFINGTON POST
Democratic operatives have hit back with statements calling
Fox News's RGA donation a final indication that their "Fair
and Balanced" brand is less accurate than ever.
From Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association:
"By contributing $1 million to the Republican Governors
Association, Fox has crossed a bright line. Fox can no longer
pretend that it is a 'fair and balanced' news organization when
Rupert Murdoch greenlights a million dollar contribution to
defeat Democratic governors.
"Time and time again, Fox News has defended itself against
accusations that it is nothing more than a tool of the Republican
Party. We know now that the reality is so much worse: they're
bankrolling the GOP. FOX's news division is ignoring the fact
that its own parent company made a direct and unprecedented
partisan contribution to defeat Democrats. This is hypocrisy at
its worst, and is a sad day for all of us who believe that an
independent and impartial media is vital to our democracy.
"Not only does this contribution severely compromise Fox's
news reporting, but it even breaks Fox's own promise to its
shareholders that it won't give money to benefit officeholders.
"While it might be naive to think this will ever happen, we
can only hope that Fox will own up to the activities and that its
stable of opinion hosts like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly will do
the right thing and call on their company to return the contribution."
From Hari Sevugan, national press secretary of the DNC:
"'Fair and balanced' has been rendered utterly meaningless.
Any pretense that may have existed about the ties between Fox
News and the Republican Party has been ripped violently away.
"No Republican who appears on Fox can be seen as answering
to an independent press and all should appear with a disclaimer
for who they truly are -- the favored candidate of the
corporate-friendly network. No Fox News's political coverage can
be seen as impartial and all of it should have a disclaimer for
what it truly is -- partisan propaganda."
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We really need more dialog from those at the top... The
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"NO" any longer! thinkingblue
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